From the Field
Funders’ Shifting Practices COVID-19: How Have Funders Changed Their Approach & What Will Stick?, a joint publication from Exponent Philanthropy and PEAK Grantmaking, analyzes a survey of 1,000 grant makers to measure how the pandemic has changed their funding practices. The majority of funders have changed their approach to grant making, with small funders changing […]
State Cultural Districts Policy Brief
NASAA’s newly updated State Cultural Districts Policy Brief provides an in-depth overview of the 17 state cultural district programs that sustain more than 343 cultural districts in the United States. This policy brief update includes additions to the role of the state in creating a cultural district, the challenges that states and localities can face […]
From the Field
Culture + Community in a Time of Crisis Culture Track, a reoccurring national audience survey, gathered 124,000 respondents this spring to assess cultural participation and motivation in the wake of COVID-19. Findings from the first wave of the survey showed that respondents feel more worried, bored and disconnected from others, and look to the arts […]
From the Research Team
Dedicated Revenue Strategies NASAA’s updated Dedicated Revenue Strategies State Policy Brief shows how states use a variety of funding sources to support the arts. Dedicated revenue for state arts agencies (SAAs) can come from special taxes, gaming taxes and fees, license plate purchases, tax checkoffs, bonds, and cultural trusts. This update uses SAA FY2020 data to […]
From the Field
Federal Data Update: COVID-19 Arts Watch The Office of Research & Analysis at the National Endowment for the Arts recently published an update to Taking Note: COVID-19 Arts Watch, which pulls federal data on businesses, households and employment to better understand COVID-19’s impact on the arts sector. Data from the U.S. Census found that 80% […]
From the Research Team
CARES Act Funding Reporting Tips A new NASAA resource, State Arts Agency and Regional Arts Organization CARES Act Funding: Reporting and Record-Keeping Tips, is intended to help with questions surrounding tracking and maintaining Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act grant records. No new or additional reporting requirements are associated with CARES Act funds. […]
From the Field
Teaching Artists as Essential Workers WolfBrown’s latest release in its Navigating the Crisis series, Teaching Artists as Essential Workers: Respect, Collaboration, and Heft, finds that while teaching artists are “first responders” providing creative opportunities for all students, they are finding their jobs less secure than ever. The article suggests that teaching artists, together with cultural […]
From the Research Team
Facts and Figures on the Creative Economy NASAA has updated our Facts & Figures on the Creative Economy to reflect the latest data on the economic value added by arts and culture in the United States. Drawn from multiple studies, this collection of national level data provides topline figures in four critical areas: investment and […]
From the Field
Performing Arts during the Pandemic IETM, an international network for contemporary performing arts, released the results of its COVID-19 survey of 80 members from 23 countries. Performing Arts in Times of the Pandemic: Status Quo and the Way Forward describes the initial impact of COVID-19 on performing artists, their coping strategies and the varied government […]
From the Research Team
Interactive Database of State Creative Economy Studies Every state holds unique cultural assets that drive their creative economies and uses a variety of methods to measure this economic contribution. NASAA’s new and improved Interactive Database of State Creative Economy Studies (IDSCES) showcases the wide-ranging approaches states use to identify and quantify their creative economies. IDSCES […]